• California Five missing and two towns burned in great fire

If a few days ago the threat loomed over one of California's vacation paradises,

Lake Tahoe

, this week the almost permanent wave of fires is pointing directly to another of the great natural treasures of the Golden State:

its sequoia forest

.

The authorities fear that the flames could reach the giant trees visited by millions of tourists each year, some 2,500 years old.

Already last year 10% of that population was consumed, a scenario that could worsen in the coming days. The fire advances in the direction of the most precious specimens of

the Sequoais National Park

, such as

General Sherman

, considered the largest tree in the world and one of the oldest. Firefighters have proceeded to wrap it in a layer of aluminum as a precaution.

On Friday, the

KNP Complex

fire

- a combination of the Paradise and the Colony - had already consumed 45 square kilometers of land, without any containment despite the 350 firefighters stationed in the area to fight the flames, as well as a team of helicopters and airplanes. . "It's a very significant area for many, many people, so a special effort is going to be put into protecting this forest,"

Rebecca Paterson

, a spokeswoman for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks,

told the Los Angeles Times

.

In favor they have the great fire resistance capacity of these trees

up to 11 meters in diameter and 83 meters high.

So far they have managed to survive for centuries despite the scourge of fires in recent years, fueled by drought, high temperatures from global warming and thunderstorms.

This year is on the way to breaking a new record.

More than 7,400 fires have devastated nearly 900,000 hectares

, with the most devastating of 2021 still active, the Dixie, controlled to 88% after having burned some 400,000 hectares since it was declared active on July 13.

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